JD Vance’s Explosive Emails to His (Ex) Transgender Friend

The The New York Times Publishes on its site a Article JT Vance and Sophia Nelson, who met in 2010 while both were studying law at Yale University, exchanged 90 emails, mainly from 2014 to 2017. Nelson, who remained in contact with Vance after her transition, today practices law in Detroit. He (or rather they) decided to share the emails times To help voters form an idea about Donald Trump’s running mate. Her friendship with Vance ended in 2021, after the latter supported a law in Arkansas banning the provision of gender-affirming care to minors.

“He became very successful and very wealthy as the Never Trumper who explained the white working class to the liberal elite,” said Nelson, whose best-selling book Hillbilly Elegy Published by Vance in 2016. “Today, he amasses even more power by demonstrating the opposite. »

Vance’s emails add to the collection of comments he now has to deny. Here are the highlights:

“I hate the police,” Vance wrote in October 2014 following the death of Michael Brown, a young black man who was killed by a white police officer in Jefferson, Missouri. “Given the number of negative experiences I’ve faced over the past few years, I can’t imagine what a black person is going through. »

“I am openly outraged by Trump’s rhetoric, and I am particularly concerned about the way Muslim citizens are welcomed in their own country,” he wrote in December 2015 after writing that he was willing to support Trump without racism. “Also, there are always demagogues ready to exploit people who believe in insane nonsense. What seems strange to me is that the Republican Party offers nothing as attractive as a demagogue. »

“The more white people want to vote for Trump, the more black people will suffer,” he wrote in September 2016. The New York Times In the wake of Hillary Clinton’s statement about Trump’s “basket” of “deplorable” supporters.

“He is a bad man.” A morally reprehensible man,” he said of Trump in October 2016.

“I love you,” she wrote at the end of an email to her transgender friend.

A Vance spokesperson’s reaction: “What this person chose to disclose is regrettable. The New York Times Decades old personal conversations between friends. Senator Vance values ​​the friendships he enjoys with people across the political spectrum. He elaborated that some of his views from a decade ago began to change after becoming a father and starting a family, and why he changed his views on President Trump. Despite their differences, Senator Vance cares for Sophia and wishes her the best. »

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